Su Ming personally greeted the guests with a bit of standing. The Synthezoids handled reception and directions for those who were neither particularly capable nor familiar to him.
Although there were many guests today, the Adjutant had prepared even more staff, so everything was in perfect order.
"I noticed you prepared a lot of wreaths today, but Wade doesn't seem like the kind of person who likes flowers." Bobo sat on Deathstroke's shoulder, eating a small cake. It was not yet time for the banquet to begin, and he was a little hungry.
In the China where Su Ming had lived, wreaths were generally given to the dead, but in the West, they clearly had different uses.
Wreaths were said to have originated in Greece. Ancient Greece called them "Stephanos"; they were sacred objects used to decorate statues of gods or altars, ornaments offered for the gods to see.
Later, priests in churches began wearing wreaths too, though they were made much smaller and hung around the neck. Later still, people decided that wearing them around the neck was inconvenient. After all, the ancient Greeks wore bedsheets, and having too much hanging from their shoulders was rather heavy, so the wreaths were shrunk a few more sizes and became garlands worn on the head.
For example, a garland woven from laurel branches was called a laurel crown, awarded as a prize to victorious warriors and winners in athletic contests.
It was precisely because Europe's wreath culture gradually diverged that people began using different flowers to convey different meanings. Red flowers were used for festive holidays, laurels for days of triumph, while white flowers and wreaths woven from evergreen plants like honeysuckle were often used in memorial rites for the dead.
The contexts in which they were used were quite complicated,